Category: Content Marketing for Freelancers

A Year Into Freelancing, Still Struggling to Get Clients

A fledgling freelance photog writes: I am writing this because I can’t sleep atm. It’s almost a year ago that I made the jump to kickstart my dream as a freelance photographer. So I began, calling up the magazines and business I really wanted to work for and booked some small successes in the beginning.  Then, I tried a new approach of offering small businesses a free shoot. I started to make as much personal work as I could and promote them on Instagram. I also started going to business meetings where (small) business owners would meet to network and chat. This went surprisingly well

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John Morris November 26, 2019

The Biggest Mistake Freelancers Make When Creating Content

Content is one of my “Big 3” for getting new freelance clients. It’s also my preferred method because it can scale infinitely and it gives even brand new freelancers a shot at getting clients (one great piece of content can be all you need to get started). The problem is a lot of freelancers focus on the wrong things when creating content. They start to think of themselves as a blogger or a YouTuber or a podcaster. And, they start looking at what other bloggers, podcasters and YouTubers are doing and try to emulate that. The problem with that is

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John Morris July 12, 2019

Where can I promote my Fiverr gigs so that I can get more projects?

Everywhere. There’s no one place that’s going to be a magic bullet. The trick is promoting your stuff on a bunch of different places and that adding up to something significant. Blogging, YouTube, podcasting, Quora, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram… You get the point. Of course, just blasting out a link to your Fiverr gigs isn’t going to get much attention and will likely get you banned or blocked in a lot of places. So, what you need is what’s called “2-step marketing”. This comes from direct mail advertising. Instead of sending a long-form sales letter to a bunch of people via

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John Morris June 27, 2019

GIVEAWAY: 1-Year Free Skillshare Membership

Hey everyone! To celebrate the launch of my new course(content2clients.com), Skillshare has given me a free 1-year membership to their site (normally $99) that I can give away to ONE of you. So, I’m running a contest over on Instagram.⠀ If you’re not familiar with Skillshare, they’re an online learning platform similar to Udemy or Lynda. But, with Skillshare, you pay a monthly fee and get access to all of their courses. It’s like the “Netflix for learning”.⠀⠀Anyway, if you win this contest, you’ll get a full year of membership which gives you access to all the courses on the platform

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John Morris June 25, 2019

NEW COURSE: Turn Content Into Clients – Content Marketing For Freelancers

My latest course, Turn Content Into Clients, is now live. Here’s the details on what’s in it: When I first started freelancing, I had no idea how to get clients. No plan for how to grow my business. I didn’t know what worked and what didn’t. I took any client I could get, worked on projects I had no passion for, worked with clients I couldn’t stand and was terrified month to month: “Where will the clients come from?” “Will I make enough to pay my bills?” “Will it always be this stressful?” And then, I discovered content marketing. And,

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John Morris June 24, 2019

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Tim Covello

Tim Covello

75 SEO and website clients now. My income went from sub zero to over 6K just last month. Tracking 10K for next month. Seriously, you changed my life.

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Michael Phoenix

By the way, just hit 95K for the year. I can’t thank you enough for everything you’ve taught me. You’ve changed my life. Thank you!

Stephanie Korski

Stephanie Korski

I started this 3 days ago, following John’s suggestions, and I gained the Upwork Rising Talent badge in less than 2 days. I have a call with my first potential client tomorrow. Thanks, John!

Jithin Veedu

Jithin Veedu

John is the man! I followed his steps and I am flooded with interviews in a week. I got into two Talent clouds. The very next day, I got an invitation from the talent specialists from Upwork and a lot more. I wanna shout out, he is the best in this. Thanks John for helping me out!

Divyendra Singh Jadoun

Divyendra Singh Jadoun

After viewing John’s course, I made an Upwork account and it got approved the same day. Amazingly, I got my first job the very same day, I couldn’t believe it, I thought maybe I got it by coincidence. Anyways I completed the job and received my first earnings. Then, after two days, I got another job and within a week I got 3 jobs and completed them successfully. All the things he says seem to be minute but have a very great impact on your freelancing career.

Sarah Mui

Sarah Mui

I’ve been in an existential crisis for the last week about what the heck I’m doing as a business owner. Even though I’ve been a business for about a year, I’m constantly trying to think of how to prune and refine services. This was very personable and enjoyable to watch. Usually, business courses like this are dry and hard to get through…. repeating the same things over and over again. This was a breath of fresh air. THANK YOU.

Waqas Abdul Majeed

Waqas Abdul Majeed

I’ve definitely learnt so much in 2.5 hours than I’d learn watching different videos online on Youtube and reading tons of articles on the web. John has a natural way of teaching, where he is passionately diving in the topics and he makes it very easy to grasp — someone who wants you to really start running your business well by learning about the right tools and implement them in your online business. I will definitely share with many of the people I know who have been struggling for so long, I did find my answers and I’m sure will do too.

Scott Plude

Scott Plude

I have been following John Morris for several years now. His instruction ranges from beginner to advanced, to CEO-level guidance. I have referred friends and clients to John, and have encouraged my own daughter to pay attention to what he says. All of his teachings create wealth for me (and happiness for my clients!) I can’t speak highly enough about John, his name is well known in my home.

Sukh Plaha

John is a fantastic and patient tutor, who is not just able to share knowledge and communicate it very effectively – but able to support one in applying it. However, I believe that John has a very rare ability to go further than just imparting knowledge and showing one how to apply it. He is able to innately provoke one’s curiosity when explaining and demonstrating concepts, to the extent that one can explore and unravel their own learning journey. Thanks very much John!

Mohamed Misrab

Misrab Mohamed

John has been the most important person in my freelance career ever since I started. Without him, I would have taken 10 or 20 years more to reach the position I am at now (Level 2 seller on Fiverr and Top Rated on Upwork).

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